Loose Leaf Notes

1. Our brains have algorithms like Facebook’s content ranking. They give us more of whatever we spend time on.

2. Sh is a word you can use in Scrabble.

3. “We’re only as sick as our secrets. The Buddha said three things cannot be hidden for long: the sun, the moon, and the truth. In other words: the truth always comes out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always come out in healthy ways. Often, it comes out, not as words, but as illness. Repressed anger can come out as cancer. Repressed hurt can come out as addiction. But the truth is always “shining through,” asking to be known.” – Paul Weinfield

4. I believe the truth has a presence that affects us whether we acknowledge it or not. Not speaking the truth when you know it can stifle the flow of life force for all involved. Acknowledging it is a relief, since it’s there affecting us anyways. When we tell the truth it frees us to move on.

5. An absurd truth: “As a general rule of thumb, nuclei are about 100,000 times smaller than the atoms that they are housed in, making them practically empty space. When you start to consider that atoms are about 99% empty space and they make up 100% of the universe, you can start to see: you’re made up of nothingness, and what we perceive as solid objects like desks, chairs, cars, even ourselves, is actually just a big conglomeration of tiny particles separated by what is practically infinite nothingness.” More HERE.

6. We are like a dream in God consciousness which is why matter is 99% empty space.

7. My friend Katherine, who is in Spain for a month, is such an exchange student. I am more of a lab person.

8. Depth Psychologists -For Katherine: We dig / and hit pay dirt / A vein / that shines / when polished / that runs/  through the gray / of granite / A soul’s inheritance / of awakened presence

9. I had “shortcake” written on my calendar for Sunday. But when I looked at it Sunday morning it didn’t compute.  I wondered how a cake could be short, and what about a tall cake? Then I remembered. It’s a Father’s Day tradition, strawberry shortcake Outer Space brunch style. More HERE. 

10. Hold the anchovies, unless they’re Phat HERE.

11. What goes in must come out. Wait for it HERE. 

12. “If you were able to separate an atomic particle into two subunits and send them to opposite ends of the world, or even the universe, changing the spin on one would instantly change the spin of the other. This theory, known as nonlocality, has been repeatedly validated in empirical studies, leading us closer to understanding that we are all literally interconnected.” – David Bohm, Quantum Theory

13. “Why do you insist the universe is not a conscious intelligence, when it gives birth to conscious intelligences?” – Roman philosopher Cicero. Over 2,000 years later

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